The Republican Party’s candidate for the Arkansas House of Representatives is advocating the use of the death penalty as a means of punishing “rebellious” children, and claims the Bible supports his position. Charlie Fuqua, who also is coming under attack for expelling Muslims from the U.S., in order to solve what he calls the “Muslim problem.” Fuqua has received the endorsement of two Republican U.S. Congressmen, Reps. Tim Griffin and Steve Womack.

“Therefore, a child who disrespects his parents must be permanently removed from society in a way that gives an example to all other children of the importance of respect for parents. The death penalty for rebellioius [sic] children is not something to be taken lightly. The guidelines for administering the death penalty to rebellious children are given in Deut 21:18-21,” Max Brantley at the Arkansas Times reported Fuqua’s book reads. Brantley adds this additional excerpt:

This passage does not give parents blanket authority to kill their children. They must follow the proper procedure in order to have the death penalty executed against their children. I cannot think of one instance in the Scripture where parents had their child put to death. Why is this so? Other than the love Christ has for us, there is no greater love then [sic] that of a parent for their child. The last people who would want to see a child put to death would be the parents of the child. Even so, the Scrpture [sic] provides a safe guard to protect children from parents who would wrongly exercise the death penalty against them. Parents are required to bring their children to the gate of the city. The gate of the city was the place where the elders of the city met and made judicial pronouncements. In other words, the parents were required to take their children to a court of law and lay out their case before the proper judicial authority, and let the judicial authority determine if the child should be put to death. I know of many cases of rebellious children, however, I cannot think of one case where I believe that a parent had given up on their child to the point that they would have taken their child to a court of law and asked the court to rule that the child be put to death. Even though this procedure would rarely be used, if it were the law of land, it would give parents authority. Children would know that their parents had authority and it would be a tremendous incentive for children to give proper respect to their parents.

Brantley also notes that “no party official has demanded money back or urged Fuqua to withdraw from the race. Majority control of the legislature is far too important for Republicans to abandon a candidate, no matter how extreme. Which tells you a little something about Republican majority governance.”

“He also describes liberals and Muslims as the ‘anti-Christ’ and says he believes they are conspiring to create a ‘bloody revolution’.”

“There is a strange alliance between the liberal left and the Muslim religion. It may be that since both are the enemies of Christianity, that they both believe that, my enemy’s enemy is my friend,” Fuqua writes. “However there are several similarities between the two. Both are antichrist in that they both deny that Jesus is God in the flesh of man, and the savior of mankind. They both also hold that their cause should take over the entire world through violent, bloody, revolution.”

You might think there is little else to say, but hold on — there’s more. We’ll have it for you shortly. Stay tuned.

What a load of pucky. Look at photos of him, I can see that he's breaking at least 3 laws of Leviticus, which are punishable by death. Since he advocates death for "violating God's law", let's start with him.

Bose_in_SP_MNOctober 8, 2012 at 5:19 pm

So, he's staking out moral high ground for every physically abusive parent who says, "This may hurt, son, but count yourself lucky if I don't kill you, because God is on my side." Nice.

This low functioning moron is living evidence, as if any more is needed, that Christianity is garbage.

JakrabtOctober 9, 2012 at 8:25 am

This man calls himself a Christian? Christ taught his disciples love, not hate. In my opinion passing judgment on his fellow man is hate and using the Bible to justify that hate is blasphemy. Then again I am a gay Liberal so according to him it’s just the Devil talking. What do I know…

Has any Republican pointed out the madness of his statements?
I have a friend who wrote a paper showing the many similarities between the extreme Christian right and the extreme Moslem right, including the Taliban. This man underscores those similarities. Using the dictates of a groups of bronze-age desert nomads as a parenting tool or a guide to creating an open free society is madness. If the man who is advocating this type of violence were to see the people who followed these rules walk into his neighborhood he would be the first to call Homeland Security. Violence has no place in a civilized society. And I am not denigrating Christianity or Islam. I am pointing out that both traditions, all traditions contain people who want the world recreated in their image.

lepidopteryxOctober 12, 2012 at 12:51 am

Next on the agenda – when a woman is raped, her attacker pays her father the modern equivalent of thirty shekels and she has to marry him.